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Tuesday, 22 September 2009
The Leading Links of London Jewellery
Six pieces of jewellery which disappeared from 77 year-old Mrs Mutch's home at the time of the murder last July have been recreated by artists in the hope they will shed some light on the case.
The frail and trusting old lady Links of London Jewellery, who was deaf and suffered from Parkinson's disease and senile dementia, was sexually assaulted and beaten to death in the Links Housing Complex, Buccleuch Street, Garnethill, Glasgow, where she lived alone.
Her body was discovered by the caretaker behind the door which she occassionally left ajar so neighbours could pop in. Just four days earlier, Mrs Mutch had left a psychiatric hospital where she was undergoing treatment Links of London Charms.
The savagery of the attack was evident in the way the killer wrecked Mrs Mutch's home. Her bed was overturned and lay upside down, its mattress several feet away at the opposite end of her bedroom.
The surround of her bath had been kicked in and a battery-operated toy dog had been ripped apart, its fur torn off.
At her funeral, the Rev. Andrew Lees spoke of the gratuitous and indiscriminate' way in which Mrs Mutch's life was taken. He said: It is cruel that the callous and cowardly fatal violence of our age should have claimed such a gracious and vulnerable old life.'
A DNA profile of the killer has been identified using samples taken from the scene and police spent GBP 10,000 taking more than 3,500 tests on local males. All failed to trace the killer Links of London Necklaces.
The offer of a substantial' cash reward from the Crimestoppers Trust has also proved fruitless.
Detective Inspector John Marshall who is leading the investigation, said: Some of the missing jewellery is quite distinctive and we are hoping someone will recognise it and can give us a new lead to the identity of the killer.
Locating this jewellery could prove to be a vital link in this inquiry and we are seeking the co-operation of all traders in these type of goods to come forward.'
The investigation team will visit pawnbrokers and second hand jewellery dealers throughout Strathclyde this week and will also be liasing with the Operation Spotlight crackdown on stolen goods Duck Charm.
Monday, 21 September 2009
The Posts of Links of London
When the phone rings these days in Toronto jeweller Shelly Purdy's studio, it's not unusual for the caller to be someone from Boston or London or as far away as Sydney, Australia, clamouring for a designer piece showcasing a Canadian diamond.
"It's incredible how people will go out of their way links of london" to buy the Canadian stones, Ms. Purdy says.
Ms. Purdy, a goldsmith and jeweller for 11 years and a licensed retailer for diamonds from the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories, is part of an industry taking off more quickly than any but the brashest optimists expected.
From a standing start in October, 1998, when Ekati opened, $1-billion (
Vaulting from a non-entity to a major player,
That's when a second diamond mine is expected to come on stream, according to a report by the
By the end of 2006, when a third Links of London Charms mine is expected to begin production, Canada's share of a global market that in 2000 was worth an estimated $7.5-billion a year at the rough production level - and a staggering $57.6-billion in retail sales of diamond jewellery - could hit 12 per cent.
Saturday, 19 September 2009
The Free Show for Links of London
The coronation was infamous for the disastrous consequences of poor crowd control planning. Part of the ensuing celebrations included a party for the masses in a
The imperial couple ignored the tragic events and were so widely criticised that Nicholas II avoided
Sotheby's estimated the Coronation Egg would bring $18 million to $24 million.
Of the 57 or so Imperial Easter Eggs in the world, including the nine Forbes examples, 10 are in the Kremlin Collection in
The Sotheby's auction was scheduled for April.
In the event, Russian industrialist Victor Vekselberg bought the entire Faberge Egg collection two months before the sale by private treaty.
Neither side would disclose the amount paid Links of London Charms, but it's thought a figure of $136 million would be close.
Vekselberg said he planned to ''make them available to the Russian people''. Estimates on the scale of Forbes' investment put the purchase cost at somewhere under $20 million, making the profit margin very respectable.
While internationally important, Faberge rarely appears in
However, there are still plenty of fine Links of London Necklaces, smaller objects available here.
Items like cuff links, small boxes, frames and walking stick handles turn up from time to time, and all of these have experienced the same sort of frenzied appreciation of value.
A beautiful pair of etched green glass cuff links studded with diamonds was sold by Sotheby's in
A fine enamelled cane handle sold at the same time for under $1000 is today worth 10 times that.
Friday, 18 September 2009
As Well as Links of London
The hypertextuality at work in Marina Warner's Indigo (Links of London Jewellery) is signaled by various forms of intertextuality: naming, verbal echoes, quotations, embedded pastiches, plays-within-plays, as well as parallel characters, settings, and situations. The characters, the narrative events, and the "colonial theme" of The Temp est are repeated; but to revisit Shakespeare's play, Warner uses the techniques of classic reahsm (hke those of a well-made plot and of carefully delineated characters) and realistically sets her Links of London Bangles characters in geographical, historical, and autobiographical reality, connecting her novel to the world outside the page. The plot is clearly doubly grounded in geographical space and time by the use of realistic techniques. The story alternates between
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Focused on Links of London
For collectors of contemporary crafts, this is the perfect opportunity to trace modern work back to its origins. Although none of the pieces is for sale, most contemporary exhibitors accept private commissions to make craftworks in the same spirit as those on show.
Rosemary Hill, who devised the exhibition, says: ''As well as putting British crafts into a historical and social perspective, the exhibition suggests we see them as part of an intellectual tradition for example, as being politically or ecologically links of london, rather than just peasant skills.''
The arts and crafts movement emerged in
Arts and crafts values were anti-academic and focused on the quality of work and the potential of materials. Its aim was not to create an elite, but to produce an ''art made by the people and for the people as a happiness to the maker and the user'', as William Morris put it in The Art of the People (Links of London Bracelets). ''Have nothing in yo houses that you do not know to be useful or beautiful,'' he urged.
A frieze of photographs and manuscripts places more than 150 exhibits of ceramics, textiles, furniture and metalwork in their social and ideological context. At times this shows the crafts movement as the thrusting avant-garde; at others as a woolly fringe. The influence of Ruskin and Morris led chronologically in several directions. It now embraces new talents, such as those of jewellery designer Maria Hanson, who graduated from
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Around Links of London
The problem was solved by a staffroom discussion. ''One of my tutors spoke to a visiting lecturer, Chris McCarthy, who works for the architects Ove Arup. He was so enthusiastic and positive about the project that before I knew it I was at Arup's offices working with a team of young Links of London Jewellery.
To build the Shaftesbury Avenue fountain will cost around pounds 140,000 - a fraction of the pounds 2m estimated for the construction of James Butler's 25ft Rampant Unicorn fountain destined for Parliament Square. Some funding is already promised. SOS will help to raise money and the Fountain Links of London Earrings is eager to assist.
''People who work and live in the area feel that it will be a great improvement to the dull brick triangle that fills the square now,'' says Ms Sellars. ''In
The plans are being scrutinised by Camden Council and if all goes well building could start early next year and be finished by February 1992.
But what inspired a jewellery designer to create a fountain? ''We moved into a new family home. In one year we had 26 leaks in the roof,'' she explains. Inspiration, one could say, came from above.
Julie Sellars, Little Tumblers,
Monday, 14 September 2009
Links of London History
THE second part of one of this season's most successful auctions at Sotheby Parke Bernet takes place on Saturday, Feb. 5, at 2 P.M. Being offered is the ceramics collection of Wilfrid Swall, and the exhibition of the lavishly decorated 19th-century monumental vases, plates and decorations at the links of london on York Avenue at 72d Street begins tomorrow and continues through next Friday.
Mr. Swall, a collector-dealer whose antiques company was Sevres & Vienna Porcelains of Tulare, Calif., left more than 600 examples of English and Continental porcelain at his death in June. That he was not alone in his taste for high Victorian ceramics was evident on Dec. 11, at the first session of the three-part auction. That auction realized $1,074,370, compared with Sotheby's most optimistic expectations of $928,000, sold all but eight lots of the 199 offered and attracted a number of dealers representing Middle Eastern collectors.
The most important porcelains, which sold for two to three times Sotheby's estimates, were colorful outsize vases embellished with gilding and scenes from legends, mythology and history. A pair of late-19th-century covered
A Minton majolica vase from 1870, the cover surmounted by the chained figure of Prometheus and an eagle hovering above, was the most expensive piece. It sold to a
Because Mr. Swall tended to collect in sets of four Links of London Bangles, six and eight, Sotheby's says that there will be many of the same vases at the second session as well as at the third session, on June 18.
Saturday, 12 September 2009
The Increasing Links of London
Despite the struggle, Bulgari's shares, listed since 1995 in
Mr. Trapani, who is as fluent in English and French as he is in his native Italian, is restoring an apartment in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower and spends an increasing amount of time in Paris, where his companion, Lorenza von Liechtenstein, lives.
When Mr. Trapani became chief executive in 1984 at age 27, Bulgari had five stores; today it has 180, plus 600 outlets for expensive watches and 14,000 for perfumes, including at Neiman Marcus and Saks. In a saturated Links of London Earrings market that is hobbled by a decline in global prosperity -- crucial to the $5 billion fine jewelry market -- getting the pasta right may be the least of Bulgari's challenges.
"The market is changing," said Christian Oddone, director of research at the Actinvest Group in
Bulgari, to be sure, with 774 million euros of revenue (Links of London Rings) last year, is less than a third the size of Gucci, which, like LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, gobbled up brands in the acquisitive 1990's. But Mr. Trapani has no regrets about Bulgari remaining a one-brand company.
"We had an underdeveloped brand," he said. "We transformed a small company into a global brand." He did not totally dismiss acquisitions in the future, but said, "It is not our first priority."
Thursday, 10 September 2009
The Cost of Links of London
There is whimsy aplenty when it comes to cufflinks. At Walter Beauchamp in
For a good pair of cufflinks, expect to pay at least $100. Links of London Charms Fancier enamel ones, such as a pair by Schlumberger at Tiffany's, can cost more than $4,000.
Some men think they're worth it.
One of them is the dashing new general manager of the Toronto Raptors. Brian Colangelo's folded arms on the front page of the National Post this week revealed much about the man and his tastes: His French cuffs were held together by a pair of red circles, probably enamel, and rimmed with what looked like diamonds. Also on display, a Rolex chronograph. And his suit was definitely handmade.
Today's buyers of cufflinks are not just businessmen -- or sports celebrities. Women are wearing them with blouses. And if you look closely, you can spot them on well-dressed presidents, princes and other celebrities in the media. Our Prime Minister does not appear to wear them. Stephen Harper doesn't seem to show much cuff at all; his jacket covers up the ends of his Links of London Necklaces. He may pick up the cufflink habit when he meets with the always-immaculate Kofi Annan at the U.N.
Wednesday, 09 September 2009
They 'polish off the sleeve
Along with a watch, cuff- links are one of the few pieces of jewellery a man can wear. "Cufflinks," says Lucy Chiang of Tiffany's in
While it is true that cufflinks don't fit with casual Fridays or a dressed-down culture, they are still very much in fashion.
Terrence Davis is sales manager at the
"I think the guy who wears cufflinks says to himself, 'this is sophisticated and formal and I want to look that way.' He's concerned with his appearance and wants to separate himself from the crowd," says George Lindsay, product manager of Royal Shirt, a division of Coppley Apparel in Hamilton, Ont.
But there's another reason for the renewed interest in Links of London Earrings. And that is the renewed interest in fine shirts with French cuffs -- you can't wear French cuffs without cufflinks.
Mr. Lindsay says 39% of the custom shirts his firm sells have French cuffs,
and sales have been growing 2% a year since 2003. His strongest Canadian market for French cuffs is
He also notes the growing presence of cufflinks at fashion trade shows around the world, including the New York Collection in
